I love sci-fi, computer games. I love any escapes. Give me them all.

I wish everybody was just ethnically ambiguous. It would make life a lot easier.

I think if you're good and you can persuade people you're going to be able to do that role and ultimately the audience buys it, then it doesn't matter whether you were really a chimpanzee in disguise! You've done it.

For me, it's painful to make a movie. It's not my normal rhythm.

I'm not necessarily a good actor, but once people start saying you are, you are. And I know that that's a truism, and there's obviously nothing important in that particular statement, but it's really about the fact that people create you as a good actor.

There's enough of a willingness in the West to do sympathetic movies about Arab roles.

Something most people don't know about me is that I never grew up.